Mellow Farmhouse

SU 83 NW HEADLEY HEATH HILL Dockenfield 8/9 Mellow Farmhouse 31/07/63 GV II

Two cottages now house. C16, C17, and late C19. Mixed wall materials, and a tile roof. A timber-framed structure, originally a 2 roomed house with a central smoke bay, altered in the early C17 by the insertion of a chimney in the smoke bay, adding a first floor, and extending by another bay at the west side, with minor C19 rear additions. Front (south) of 2 storeys, 4 windows. Roof hipped at the west end, with a gablet, gabled at the east. Exposed frame- work, covered in the upper part of the front and west walls with tile hanging with decorative scalloped bands, with brick infill, above a deep plinth of rubble ironstone. Casements. Boarded door in an architrave. Inside, there are massive hearths, an oven (once 2) an old dog-leg staircase, old doors, and fragments of painting on a beam.

(Ref : Report No.365 of the Domestic Buildings Research (Surrey) Group)

Listing NGR: SU8212638817